Job summary
This role is an essential part of the senior nursing leadership team focusing on meeting our current and future workforce plans. Engaging clinical teams to review their establishments, you will enable, enact and support the required changes to the workforce.
The post holder will play a crucial role in supporting consistency across the care groups, creating strategic insights to shape safe and sustainable staffing across the Trust whilst generating innovative solutions to increase roster efficiency and improve recruitment and retention.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the Deputy Chief Nurse and Care Groups with the overview and coordinating functions for leading and developing the Trust approach to Nursing workforce/safer staffing in line with national and regulatory requirements.
The post holder will build upon their specialist knowledge and function as an expert within workforce development, effectively contributing to the Trust agenda.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions at interview.
Please note if a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under relevant Trust or national terms and conditions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification see the attached documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification see the attached documents.
Person Specification
Technical skills and competencies
Essential
- Analytical skills to interpret complex data and action
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate complex information
- Strong and demonstrable decision-making skills - clinical and non-clinical
- Experience of using audit to influence adoption of best practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with NMC
- Master's degree
- Safer staffing fellow or working towards
- Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Leadership management course
- Teaching qualification / training
- Experience using QI tools and techniques
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of delivering nursing performance including safer staffing, skill mix reviews
- Proven ability to manage and deliver complex and changing workload, which will include the need to identify and resolve conflicting priorities within tight timescales
- Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders and a successful track record of influence and engagement
- Commitment to improving the patient journey
- Critique of research findings to benefit area of practice
Desirable
- Experience using QI tools and techniques
- Experience influencing and leading at a system level
- Conference presentation and publications
Person Specification
Technical skills and competencies
Essential
- Analytical skills to interpret complex data and action
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate complex information
- Strong and demonstrable decision-making skills - clinical and non-clinical
- Experience of using audit to influence adoption of best practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with NMC
- Master's degree
- Safer staffing fellow or working towards
- Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Leadership management course
- Teaching qualification / training
- Experience using QI tools and techniques
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of delivering nursing performance including safer staffing, skill mix reviews
- Proven ability to manage and deliver complex and changing workload, which will include the need to identify and resolve conflicting priorities within tight timescales
- Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders and a successful track record of influence and engagement
- Commitment to improving the patient journey
- Critique of research findings to benefit area of practice
Desirable
- Experience using QI tools and techniques
- Experience influencing and leading at a system level
- Conference presentation and publications
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).